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Tom Crean Is Doing It Right
Written by wrigleyville   
Thursday, 30 October 2008
Sports Illustrated has a fascinating article on the mess that Kelvin Sampson left in Bloomington - and what Tom Crean is doing to fix it. Aside from the ugly details of last season, these two things are heartening to any Indiana fan: " ... he has made overtures to Bob Knight, making it clear Knight would be welcomed back into the program. (Knight has not yet responded directly.) "Coach Crean's already done a lot to make Indiana basketball feel like something special again," says Kitchel, the IU All-America. "The past now seems further past than it was." And: "Old-timers and recent alums. Forwards and guards. Former players and former coaches. More than 180 in all, they converged on a resort during the last week in August. The event was described on the invitation as an Indiana Hoosiers "basketball reunion," a social gathering of men who had worn the cream-and-crimson jersey and those trademark candy-cane warmups. But, really, it was something deeper. A summit, perhaps, or a council meeting to address the crisis facing the tribe. "Most of all," says Bobby (Slick) Leonard, an All-America guard at Indiana in the 1950s, "it was the first step in healing, making it one big, happy family again." ... So from Tom Motter (Indiana class of 1941) to D.J. White (class of 2008), the elders showed up at the West Baden Springs Hotel in French Lick, Ind., the week before Labor Day. They played golf and ate barbecue and talked, mostly about how the program would recover its good name. Eventually the latest tribal leader, the new coach, Tom Crean, stood before the audience and gave a variation of the speech he's delivered countless times during the past six months. "We're going to build this back up, and we're going to do it in a way that will make people proud," he intoned in a thick Midwestern accent. "This is Indiana." (h/t to the invaluable Inside The Hall.)

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